Newbe needs some help with basics

Hello. Does anyone know of a website where I can learn how to lay track properly, including track bed, nailing, wiring, tips, and so?
Thanks for your help.
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Better yet, has anyone any knowledge of a DVD that goes through the laying of sectional track; flexible track, and hand laid rail?
It just seems to me that for my own learning, I learn better by watching and than repeating / doimng what I just watched, than I do by mere reading or looking at a still picture.
Everybody learns in a different style or manner, but watching it done once or twice, with good detailed narration, and then doing it, works or me.
YMMV
muselart wrote:

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jJim McLaughlin wrote:

Here are some video/DVD possibilities to get you started:
Kalmbach sells some Videos/DVDs: http://kalmbachcatalog.stores.yahoo.net/model-railroading-videos.html
They also make available (Through Model Railroader magazine) a free video PDF on Joe Fugate's ballasting technique: http://www.trains.com/mrr/objects/pdf/ballasting_and_weathering_track.pdf
Of course, they also sell other video PDF's: http://kalmbachcatalog.stores.yahoo.net/model-railroading-downloadable-videos-layout-how-to.html
And if you like the free video PDF, Joe Fugate has produced his own series of how-to DVD's: http://model-trains-video.com/catalog.php
Disclaimer: I have no interest in any of these products, and other than the free video PDF about ballasting, I have not even viewed any of them. But I did like that free PDF, and I have heard good things about Joe Fugate's DVD's.
HTH, Stevert
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It's thoughtful of you, but your disclaimer is probably not needed here. After all, if someone asks an honest question in this forum who cares if a manufacturer answers it, so long as the question gets answered accurately?
It's not like you were spamming the newsgroup.
-Pete
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Green Frog has a number of dvds...
http://www.greenfrog.com /
NMRA...
http://www.nmra.org/beginner /
Bill Carl has an excellent scenery page:
http://www.fcsme.org/bcarl/basic_scenery.htm
Thor's outstanding All Gauge Page:
http://www.thortrains.com /
Good luck with your model railroad!
Bill Bill's Railroad Empire N Scale Model Railroad: http://www.billsrailroad.net Brief History of N Scale: http://www.billsrailroad.net/history/n-scale Bill's Store--Books, Trains, and Toys: http://www.billsrailroad.net/bookstore Resources--Links to 1,200 sites: http://www.billsrailroad.net/bills-favorite-links
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On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:15:22 -0800 (PST), I said, "Pick a card, any

My advice would be to go to a club meeting in Colorado somewhere near where you live. You'll get far better advice from the members than you ever could from pictures on a web site. Ask here for anyone who posts on rec.models.railroad from your local area. -- Ray
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